Martin Heath's
CineCycle
Underground Cinema
behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto, 416-971-4273
500 PAST EVENTS 2008-2024
2008-2011
> 2012-2014
> 2015-2016
> 2017-2019
\/
Upcoming Events
1 EVENT LAST FRIDAY
2 EVENTS LAST MONTH 4
EVENTS LAST OCTOBER
6 EVENTS LAST SEPTEMBER
3 EVENTS LAST AUGUST
1 EVENT LAST JULY 4
EVENTS LAST JUNE
2 EVENTS LAST MAY 2 EVENTS
LAST APRIL
1 EVENT LAST MARCH 1
EVENT LAST DECEMBER
1 EVENT NOVEMBER 2023
2 EVENTS OCTOBER 2023
3 EVENTS SEPTEMBER 2023
1 EVENT AUGUST 2023
2 EVENTS JULY 2023 3
EVENTS JUNE 2023
5 EVENTS MAY 2023 1 EVENT
APRIL 2023
2 EVENTS MARCH 2023 1
EVENT DECEMBER 2022
2 EVENTS OCTOBER 2022
2 EVENTS SEPTEMBER 2022
2 EVENTS MARCH 2022 2
EVENTS DECEMBER 2021
1 EVENT NOVEMBER 2021
2 EVENTS SEPTEMBER 2021
6 EVENTS CANCELLED (PANDEMIC) APRIL-NOVEMBER
2020
1 EVENT MARCH 2020 1
EVENT FEBRUARY 2020
Trash Palace Theatre, "Toronto's Classiest
Cinema" since 2007,
presents 16mm features and shorts, second Friday each month.
Facebook group
Model
Shop
(Jacques Demy, USA / France, 1969, 97 min.)
Facebook
Friday, December 13, 9:30pm, $10
Final Girls Film Club presents its monthly screening
Black
Swan
(Darren Aronofsky, USA, 2010, video, 108 min.)
Thursday, November 28, 7:30pm, $10
Trash Palace Theatre, "Toronto's Classiest
Cinema" since 2007,
presents 16mm features and shorts, second Friday each month.
Facebook group
The
Stranger and the Gunfighter
(Antonio Margheriti, Italy / Spain, 1974, 107 minutes)
Facebook
Friday, November 8, 9:30pm, $10
Final Girls Film Club presents its monthly screening
Carrie
(Brian De Palma, USA, 1976, video, 98 min.)
preceded by a Hallowe'en costume contest!
Thursday, October 31, 7:30pm, $25
The Future of the Body
(Istvan Kantor, Canada, 2024, video, 40 minutes)
A trilogy by local artist in person with his intro.
Tuesday, October 15, 8pm, $10 / pwyc
Trash Palace Theatre, "Toronto's Classiest
Cinema" since 2007,
presents 16mm features and shorts, second Friday each month.
Facebook group
Destroy
All Planets
(Noriaki Yuasa, Japan, 1968, 75 minutes)
Facebook
Friday, October 11, 9:30pm, $10
Scopitones
Short, 1960s music films on 16mm!
Saturday, October 5, 7pm-4am, free!
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto
INCLUDED AS PART OF
The 17th Nuit
Blanche
Free all-night art installations and events
at 85 varied locations across Toronto,
indoors and outdoors.
Final Girls Film Club presents its monthly screening
Scream
(Wes Craven, USA, 1996, video, 111 minutes)
Thursday, September 26, 7:30pm, $10
15 to 10
International Film Festival
New short videos by pioneering online creators
using platforms like TikTok, YouTube, Instagram.
Saturday, September 21, 8:30pm, free!
King of Super 8:
A Night with John Porter
World premiere of a short documentary
about Toronto film artist John Porter,
and shot at CineCycle, by TMU Media Arts
students Anthony Wegner and Charlie Hill.
Plus John's short Artist Talk illustrated by
his super 8 films and performance!
Facebook
Thursday, September 19, 7:30,
$15
Limited capacity, advance tickets
only!
Sheila Gostick presents
Minimalist Jug Band
Live performance by artist
Al Mader from Vancouver!
Performance by Sheila Gostick.
Saturday, September 14, 8pm, $25
Trash Palace Theatre, "Toronto's Classiest
Cinema" since 2007,
presents 16mm features and shorts, second Friday each month.
Facebook group
Classroom Films
Vintage educational short films.
Facebook
Friday, September 13, 9:30pm, $10
Magonia Films presents
Warrendale
(Allan King, Canada, 1967, video, 101 min.)
Tuesday, September 3, 7:15pm,
$pwyc, $5 suggested. tickets
Charlie Huisken (of This Ain't The Rosedale Library)
presents
Val Vale of
RE/Search Publications
in person from USA with his talk about his
self-publishing in San Francisco, 1970s & 80s.
Plus his multi-media show with his partner,
experimental filmmaker Marian Wallace.
Facebook
Friday, August 23, 7pm, $25
at door
advance
tickets $20
Final Girls Film Club presents its monthly screening
Death
Proof
(Quentin Tarantino, USA, 2007, video, 127 min.)
Thursday, August 22, 7:30pm, $10
Sheila Gostick
with her Honest Ed's blue guitar!
Music and political commentary.
40 years of radical brilliance in Toronto!
Wednesday, August 7, 8pm, $pwyc
Final Girls Film Club presents its monthly screening
Jennifer's
Body
(Karyn Kusama, USA, 2009, video, 102 min.)
Thursday, July 25, 7:30pm, $10
SARA FEST TORONTO!
Two nights with Sara Hennessey!
Plus Noah Maloney and Jacie Pirico.
Stand up comedy and live music.
Live taping! Limited seating!
Wednesday,
July 10, 8pm, $15.
Thursday, July 11,
8pm, $15.
Advance tickets.
Cinemaniacs presents
Two
Days, One Night
(Marion Cotillard, Belgium, 2014, video, 95 min.)
in Belgian with English subtitles.
Friday, June 28, 7pm, $12.50
Final Girls Film Club presents
Bodies
Bodies Bodies
(Halina Reijn, USA, 2022, video, 95 min.)
Thursday, June 27, 7:30pm, $5
Trash Palace Theatre, "Toronto's Classiest
Cinema" since 2007,
presents 16mm features and shorts, second Friday each month.
Facebook group
Creature
of Destruction
(Larry Buchanan, USA, 1967, 80 minutes)
Facebook
Friday, June 14, 9:30pm, $10
Cinemaniacs presents
The
Hunt
(Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark, 2012, video, 115 min.)
Facebook
Sunday, June 9, 7:30pm, $12.50
Trash Palace Theatre, "Toronto's Classiest
Cinema" since 2007,
presents 16mm features and shorts, second Friday each month.
Facebook group
Son
of Blob
(Larry Hagman, USA, 1972, 91 min.)
Facebook
Friday, May 10, 9:30pm, $10
Celebrate Mayday with
Sheila Gostick
Music and political commentary.
40 years of radical brilliance in Toronto!
Wednesday, May 1, 8:30pm, $20
Saved by Art:
A Sword Soaked in Jam
Celebrate Martin Heath's 80th birthday! with
Crack Mansion (Joslyn Vesta Rogers, video),
short videos by Al Razutis, Jasper Standish,
Sidney Gordon, and Gary Lee-Nova, plus
music by KraftdragKaraokeKirtan.
Saturday, April
13, 7pm
Limited attendance.
RSVP: savedbyart (at) proton (dot) me
Trash Palace Theatre, "Toronto's Classiest
Cinema" since 2007,
presents 16mm features and shorts, second Friday each month.
Facebook group
Girls
in the Night
(Jack Arnold, USA, 1953, 83 minutes)
Facebook
Friday, April 12, 9:30pm, $10
Trash Palace Theatre, "Toronto's Classiest
Cinema" since 2007,
presents 16mm features and shorts, second Friday each month.
Facebook group
Laserblast
(Michael Rae, USA, 1978, 85 minutes)
preceded by an episode of Green Acres.
Facebook
Friday, March 8, 9:30pm, $10
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - since 2007,
presents 16mm features and shorts, second Friday each month.
Facebook group
Village
of the Giants
(Bert I. Gordon, USA, 1965, 81 minutes)
Facebook
Friday, December 8, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - since 2007,
presents 16mm features and shorts, second Friday each month.
Facebook group
Hollywood
Babylon
(Van Guylder, USA, 1972, 87 minutes)
Facebook
Friday, November 10, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
Jesse Fritz and Danielle Rebelle Productions present
PORTAL
Bass & beats, with visuals & lighting.
Montreal's Honeydrip, Vancouver's Leland River,
plus local DJs Acote, Sanjeet, and Fritz.
Facebook
Friday, October 20, 10pm-4am,
$35 before 11pm, $40 after 11pm.
Cash at door. Limited spots available.
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - since 2007,
presents 16mm features and shorts, second Friday each month.
Facebook group
Piranha
II: The Spawning
(James Cameron, USA / Italy, 1981, 94 minutes)
James Cameron's first as director! Facebook
Friday, October 13, 9:30pm, $10
CineCycle
presents 'Scopitones'
Short, 1960s music films on 16mm!
Saturday, September 23, 7pm-4am, free!
Outdoors!
in the parking lot behind 401
Richmond St. W., Toronto
INCLUDED AS PART OF
The 16th Nuit
Blanche
Free all-night art installations and events
at 85 varied locations across Toronto,
indoors and outdoors. Facebook
15 to 10
International Film Festival
New short videos by pioneering online creators
using platforms like TikTok, YouTube, Instagram.
Facebook
Saturday, September 16, 8pm
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - since 2007,
presents 16mm features and shorts, second Friday each month.
Facebook group
Survival
Run
(Larry Spiegel, USA, 1979, 89 minutes)
Facebook
Friday, September 8, 9:30pm, $10
Magonia Films presents
Comrades:
Almost a Love Story
(Peter Chan, Hong Kong, 1996, digital, 118 minutes)
plus Baba (Anya Chirkova, Canada, 2022, 14 min.).
Anya Chirkova and writer/actor Maziyar Khatam in
person for a Q&A following their video. tickets
Tuesday, August 29, 7:15pm,
$pwyc, $5 suggested
Sandwich District presents
Anabasine and esme
from Montreal! Plus Buck Washenfold,
DJ Googie B2B, and Derrie Air.
Friday, July 21, 10pm-4am, $15-25, 19+
tickets
Kyree Vibrant and Johnny Kalangis present
Big Rude Jake:
Pursuing the Pearl of Great Price
(Kyree Vibrant, Canada, 2022, video, 78 min.)
World premiere! Facebook
Thursday, July 20, 7pm, $15 tickets
Magonia Films presents
The
Heartbreak Kid
(Elaine May, USA, 1972, digital, 106 min.)
Tuesday, June 20, 7:15pm,
$pwyc, $5 suggested
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - since 2007,
presents 16mm features and shorts, second Friday each month.
Facebook group
The
Love Godesses
(Saul J. Turell, USA, 1965, 87 min. documentary)
The film Morgan!, originally scheduled,
was replaced due to techical issues.
Facebook
event
Friday, June 9, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
The Industry Entertainment presents
Grunge N Bass
Drum & Bass and Techno DJs with
a 90s grunge twist, by ARACHN1D,
Angelphroot, Mitch Website, Kaylub,
Ms. GothicFish, and Corpse Reviver.
Friday, June 2, 10pm-5am, $20-40.
Ages 19+, limited capacity, dress code.
Rhythm & Light:
Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie
in person from Australia! with their short,
experimental, 16mm films, 2016-2022.
Total running time: 90 minutes.
Facebook
Tuesday, May 30, 8pm, pay what you want.
Trash Palace Theatre, since 2007, presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month.
Facebook group
Terror
Beneath the Sea
(Hajime Satô, Japan, 1966, 16mm, 79 min.), plus
Movin' (1967, 16mm, 27 min.) with Gordon Lightfoot.
Facebook event
Friday, May 12, 9:30pm, $10
Load Media presents
This is Not a Phase, Vol II
Showcase and networking event.
The hottest up 'n' coming artists!
Cash prizes! Hosted by COACH.
Friday, May 5, 7pm, $20
Atlantis North
(Walker Smith, Canada, 1987, 16mm, 24 min.)
Thursday, May 4, 7pm and 9pm.
Doors open 6:30pm and 8:30pm.
$5 suggested donation.
Celebrate Mayday with
Sheila Gostick
Music and political commentary.
40 years of radical brilliance in Toronto!
Monday, May 1, 8:30pm, $20
Trash Palace Theatre, since 2007, presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month.
Facebook group
Excalibur
(John Boorman, USA, 1981, 140 min.)
Facebook
Friday, April 14, 9:30pm, $10
Oneness Film Festival
Recent short videos by local artists.
Saturdays, February 18 & 25, March 4 & 11
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month,
returning after 3 years! with
Stakeout
on Dope Street
(Irvin Kershner, USA, 1958, 16mm, 89 minutes)
Facebook
Friday, March 10, 9:30pm, $10
Science for Peace presents Movie Night with
Dr.
Strangelove
(Stanley Kubrick, UK / USA, 1964, video, 94 min.)
preceded by live music by Arnd Jurgensen.
Facebook
Friday, December 9, 7pm, free / pwyc
Masking recommended. Register
Cinemaniacs presents a Halloween Horror Movie Night
The
Return of the Living Dead
(Dan O'Bannon, USA, 1985, video, 91 minutes)
followed by
live music by rockin' band Chris Lord Ideal!
Facebook
Sunday, October 30, 6pm, $15 donation
The 15th Nuit
Blanche
Free all-night art installations and events
indoors and outdoors. Facebook
Saturday, October 1, 7pm-7am, free!
at 85 varied locations across Toronto
INCLUDING
CineCycle
presents 'Scopitones'
Short, 1960s music films on 16mm!
Outdoors in the Courtyard, 401
Richmond St. W., Toronto
The annual international event in cities world-wide,
100 Thousand Poets for Change
Performances by Daniel f. Bradley, Kemeny Babineau,
Daisuke Takeya, Robert Teixeira, Lorette C., Luzajic,
Louis Taylor, lo bil, Monte McMurchy, Karl Jirgens,
Heidi Von Palleske, Donna Lypchuk, Steven Black,
Admiral Crumple, Sheila O'Hearn, Jesse Gilmour,
Clifton Joseph, LL.D., and Paul Corman-Roberts.
Hosted by Louise Bak. Produced by Marty Smith.
Facebook
Sunday, September 25, 7pm, free!
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto
Petunia
Veteran Canadian country-blues musician
from British Columbia & New Brunswick
on his annual East Canada tour.
Plus rockin' band Chris Lord Ideal,
and introducing Miss Cleo Halfpenny.
Drink hangout jam party afterwards.
Facebook
Sunday, September 4, 9pm, $20
The Great 35mm Trailer Show
Lost teasers, ads, and corporate marketing
from the early 21st century and beyond.
Followed by an auction of the rare prints
to cover the rental of CineCycle.
Saturday, March
26, 9pm (doors 8pm),
$pwyc ($5 donation recommended)
Masks and double vaccine required.
Celebrate International Women's Day with
Sheila Gostick
Music and political commentary.
40 years of radical brilliance in Toronto!
Tuesday, March 8, 8:30pm, $20
Mouth Congress presents their
Record Release and Screening
A performance by Toronto band Mouth Congress
featuring Paul Bellini and Scott Thompson,
releasing their first record - Waiting for Henry,
for sale on CD and 2-LP coloured vinyl!
Followed by their new movie!
Mouth Congress (2021, Blu-Ray, 70 minutes).
Saturday, December 11, 8pm, free!
Echo
Park Film Center presents its monthly Talks by
analog "Film Friends". Season 2: "Simple Machines".
John Porter
A Talk & demonstration by the veteran Toronto artist
about his super 8 film performances including
camera dances, projector dances, film busking.
Facebook
Saturday, December 11, 1pm EST, free!
in person at CineCycle, or
online on Zoom from Echo
Park Film Center,
1200 N. Alvarado St., Los Angeles, California
Porter Performs
Toronto artist John Porter with 6 of his live super 8
film performances (1981-2016, total 16 minutes)
for a scene in a short documentary about him
by some Ryerson University film students.
Facebook
Wednesday, November 10, 8pm, $10 / $5
LIMITED CAPACITY. Advance commitment,
mask-wearing & proof of vaccine required.
Pay cash at door, or early on Eventbrite.
The 20th aluCine Latin Film & Media Arts Festival (Oct 3-6) presents
Latinidad
New Works by Latin Canadian Filmmakers
Jean-Pierre Marchant, Francisca Duran & Vanessa John,
SoJin Chun, Javier Lovera, Marcos Arriaga, Jerusa Leão,
Madi Piller, Gustavo Cerquera Benjumea, Cecilia Araneda,
Juan Pablo Pinto Mendoza & Sebastian Ignacio Oreamuno.
Total running time: 60 minutes. English subtitles.
Followed by Q&A with the artists in person! Facebook
ONLINE - Thursday, September 30, 6pm, free! Register
IN-PERSON - Thursday, September 30, 7pm, $pwyc
SOLD OUT!
CineCycle,
behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto
Covid-19 masks & distancing required. Advance
tickets
Petunia
Veteran Canadian country-blues musician
from British Columbia & New Brunswick
on his annual East Canada tour.
PLUS
Sheila Gostick
Music and political commentary.
40 years of radical brilliance in Toronto!
Wednesday, September 29, 8pm
6 EVENTS CANCELLED
DUE TO PANDEMIC,
APRIL-NOVEMBER 2020
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - since 2007,
presents 16mm features and shorts, second Friday each month.
Facebook group
Hollywood
Babylon
(Van Guylder, USA, 1972, 87 minutes)
Friday, November 13, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
CANCELLED DUE TO
PANDEMIC,
OCTOBER 2020
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - since 2007,
presents 16mm features and shorts, second Friday each month.
Facebook group
Piranha
II: The Spawning
(James Cameron and Ovidio G. Assonitis,
USA / Italy, 1981, 94 minutes)
Friday, October 9, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
CANCELLED DUE TO
PANDEMIC,
SEPTEMBER 2020
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - since 2007,
presents 16mm features and shorts, second Friday each month.
Facebook group
Survival
Run
(Larry Spiegel, USA, 1979, 89 minutes)
Friday, September 11, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
CANCELLED DUE
TO PANDEMIC,
JUNE 2020
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - since 2007,
presents 16mm features and shorts, second Friday each month.
Facebook group
Morgan! (Karel Reisz, UK, 1966, 97 minutes)
Friday, June 12, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
CANCELLED DUE TO
PANDEMIC
MAY 2020
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace Theatre - since 2007,
presents 16mm features and shorts, second Friday each month.
Facebook group
Terror
Beneath the Sea
(Hajime Satô, Japan, 1966, 79 minutes)
Friday, May 8, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
CANCELLED DUE TO
PANDEMIC
APRIL 2020
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - since 2007,
presents 16mm features and shorts, second Friday each month.
Facebook group
Excalibur
(John Boorman, USA, 1981, 140 min.)
Friday, April 10, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month. Facebook
group
Adiós,
Sabata
(Gianfranco Parolini, Italy, 1970, 102 min.)
Facebook
event
Friday, March 6, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
"Toronto's Classiest Cinema" - Trash Palace
Theatre - presents
16mm features & shorts, 2nd Friday each month. Facebook
group
Pajama
Party
(Don Weis, USA, 1964, 82 min.)
Facebook
event
Friday, February 14, 9:30pm, $10 (classified)
CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Ave., Toronto 416-971-4273
END OF PAST EVENTS 2020-2023
EVENTS 2008-2011
> 2012-2014
> 2015-2016
>
2017-2019
/\ Upcoming Events
